The first time former Canadian ambassador Kenneth Taylor stepped foot onto UC Berkeley in 1957, he was excited to be part of what he likes to call California’s “always looking over the horizon” mentality. Read More…
Antimatter opposes matter in many ways — but could that include gravity as well? Researchers at UC Berkeley are conducting experiments to see whether antimatter, which is made of antiparticles that have the same masses but opposite charges as particles of ordinary matter, can defy gravity. Joel Fajans, a professor Read More…
While the UC Berkeley campus experienced the excitement of Cal Day, students in Zellerbach Hall participated in the annual TEDxBerkeley conference, designed to spark dialogue over issues ranging from the consumption of organic food to the push toward online education. The event, independently organized by the Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholars Read More…
As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, so has the demand for people who know how to create and work with it, and UC Berkeley is looking to ensure that its graduates don’t get left in the dust. Read More…
Although UC Berkeley alum Surbhi Sarna had founded her own medical device company NVision Medical Corporation, she felt that she needed more than a science and engineering background to take her company to the next level.
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As technology increasingly finds it’s way into the classroom, one must ask: does it really belong there? Read More…
A UC Berkeley graduate student created Insight Maker, a web-based program with over 10,000 users that creates simulation models applicable to everything from business to biology. Read More…
While the majority of people experienced President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on television, a select group of UC Berkeley students were able to experience it in the flesh. Read More…
A new psychology study out of UC Berkeley has found that sleep deprivation, something college students are all too familiar with, can explain problems with feeling and expressing gratitude in romantic relationships. Read More…
The UC Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab appears nondescript. Located on the ground floor of Tolman Hall, it has a maze of rooms — one has nothing but a table of computers, another looks like a waiting room with a couch and table and yet another houses equipment. The lab’s simplicity, however, Read More…
